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To: Kolokotronis
I suspect that ++Akinola won’t go to Lambeth and run a “Global South” conference in Africa somewhere.

I hope not.

His position should be that he is the primate of the second-largest church in the Anglican communion (largest if you count people who actually attend Sunday service every week), that unlike the Bible-despising TEC he is a builder of churches where there were none and an effective evangelizer, and that he represents the historic mainstream of Anglicanism.

4 posted on 05/23/2007 5:31:49 AM PDT by wideawake ("Pearl Harbor is America's fault, right, Mommy?" - Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
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To: wideawake; Huber

The problem is that communion with heresy is spiritual death. In the 7th century, the Monothelite heresy broke out in The Church and it was embraced by much of the Christian East. Even the hierarchy of the Western Church, though they held more or less firm against the heresy, maintained communion with the heretical patriarchs, particularly the Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Maximos the Confessor fought with all his might against this heresy and the Monothelite hierarchs. Eventually he was virtually the only hierarch in Christendom who refused communion with them. He wrote:

“Even if the whole universe holds communion with the [heretical Ecumenical] patriarch, I will not communicate with him. For I know from the writings of the holy Apostle Paul: the Holy Spirit declares that even the angels would be anathema if they should begin to preach another Gospel, introducing some new teaching.”

+Maximos prevailed and was able to convince even the Monothelite EP to renounce the heresy.

++Akinola is in a tough position, but he has to do what is right.


5 posted on 05/23/2007 6:00:16 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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